MSE Parents Club Part 5

cazscoob

are you all excited mrs t!!! the drive will all be worth it!

elle can i have an ice lolly its cold out there!

elle_gee

cazscoob wrote: »

.. elle can i have an ice lolly its cold out there!

Help yourself.. They're pure orange juice ones - one of my five a day, you understand!

My_Fathers_Daughter

r.mac wrote: »

MFD - while I remember, have you applied for EHIC cards yet? Ours came very quickly.

Someone enlighten me...what's an EHIC card??

BrunoM wrote: »

Aiee it is just the worst thing when they are upset in the car! I feel your pain MFD I struggle with Elijah crying at the best of times, let alone when he is strapped in behind me and there's heavy traffic or whatever...

Thanks Bruno. We were picking hubby up from the pub and I called him 3 times in the 2 minutes we were sat outside bad wife!! When he came out I was in floods of tears and made him sit in the back with Benjamin.
But as soon as we got home I brought Benjamin inside and he was just laughing at my tears :rolleyes: bl00dy men!!!


We managed to keep Benjamin up til just past half 8 tonight :T I am trying to move his bedtime back from 7pm to a time which is more suitable to a working mommy. He was really cute rolling around on the floor in his sleeping bag (we were convinced he would fall asleep after a late bottle with daddy!!)
Let's hope it makes him sleep a little later too. Last nights 9.30pm bedtime meant a 5.00am wake-up...which is fine by me!! I got a full 5 1/2 hours sleep woo hoo!!

elle_gee

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Someone enlighten me...what's an EHIC card??

European Health.. something.. Card - new version of an E111 to get medical treatment abroad for free

ETA: Here - https://www.ehic.org.uk/Internet/home.do

BrunoM

Sigh, such dramas in my house... OH just cannot handle it when Elijah fights sleep or doesn't follow his routine, etc. She just deeply truly feels he is fighting against us, deliberately being difficult, if we comfort him or are nice to him he has "won" and learned how to manipulate us, etc.

So not only does she not comfort him when he is crying and crying instead of sleeping, she gets angry about it, and ends up storming in and shouting at him and then going and crying herself, while he is in hysterics.

So much of this evening has been spent with tears and asking me for ideas how she can become more patient with him, bar a minor interruption where I kindly :A took her to bed for some adult comforting techniques and then a huuuuge spider invaded I chased it across the floor with a shoe and it amazingly escaped out of the room. Cue more hysterics about how it is no doubt now in the nursery crawling on baby's face, etc :eek:

Aieeee. I have no idea how to change OH's attitude or help her be patient/not view it as a fight. All I have is talking (and adult comforting techniques! :beer:) which doesn't seem to be doing the job.

cazscoob

thats why i bought the pineapple ice lollies last time they even had the 5 a day label and OH said i was crazy!
suppose ill head for bed still feel guilty about not going today but TBH i think i would have had to come home anyway!

BrunoM

elle_gee wrote: »

European Health.. something.. Card - new version of an E111 to get medical treatment abroad for free

ETA: Here - https://www.ehic.org.uk/Internet/home.do

Careful, tis not 'free', it's 'the local cost' - so free where they have something like the NHS perhaps, but some countries it can still be semi-costly! It obviously helps though

elle_gee

BrunoM wrote: »

Careful, tis not 'free', it's 'the local cost' - so free where they have something like the NHS perhaps, but some countries it can still be semi-costly! It obviously helps though

I stand corrected Never have the misfortune to use mine!

Hmm.. OH keeps trying them "adult comforting techniques" on me.. Ain't working tho! Don't know what to suggest.. Is there anything (else!) your OH is open to? Groups to go to, books, relaxation of the massage type?

cazscoob

bruno we have arguments about this all the time too so your not alone. charlie is a nightmare most of the time and you cant leave him for a second and he has wrecked the place. i get very frustrated and loose my temper whereas OH will be calm until he is really bad and when he shouts charlie dives to the ground like a submissive puppy? this doesnt stop him as he jumps up grins and goes back to whatever he was doing. tonight we caught him after he had raided the fridge and was eating a yoghurt with a fork lol!

SusanC_2

MrsTine wrote: »

You don't know what a Raffi is? :eek: :eek:

I always assumed it was just a cuddly toy giraffe.

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

That's ace. Maybe you should buy a second one?!

I'm still waiting to see which toy Izzy is going to get attached to so I can buy a spare.

Alice has only just become attached enough to anything for us to think about doing that. Fortunately it's Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore as I don't think we'd be able to find replicas of anything else. She actually already had two Eeyores and wasn't bothered by the fact that they look different (they are almost the same size but one is a "baby" one so is slightly paler colours) which has made it easier. She now has three Tiggers, two Eeyores and one WTP but is only allowed one of each in bed and only one full stop to take out in the car. (She doesn't get upset if we don't take one out with us but if we don't she talks incessantly about Winnie the Pooh so it is better to have one with us.)